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Wendt offers his best wishes to astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., command pilot of the 1965 Gemini 6A mission, as he arrives in the white room atop Pad 19.. As a McDonnell engineer, Wendt supervised spacecraft launch pad preparations at Cape Canaveral during the Mercury and Gemini crewed space programs beginning with the flight of Ham the chimpanzee in 1961.
Mir = Launched to be part of the crew of the Mir Space Station; ISS = Launched to be part of the crew of the International Space Station. Names of astronauts returning from the Mir or ISS on the Space Shuttle are shown in italics. They did not have specific crew roles, but are listed in the Payload Specialist columns for reasons of space.
Space Shuttle Atlantis: Kennedy LC-39B United Space Alliance STS-76: NASA Low Earth (Mir) Shuttle-Mir flight: 31 March 13:28: Successful SpaceHab LSM: NASA/SpaceHab: Low Earth (Atlantis) Logistics Crewed orbital flight with six astronauts 28 March 00:21 Delta II 7925-9.5 Cape Canaveral LC-17B Boeing IDS USA-117 US Air Force Medium Earth: Navigation
Space Shuttle Endeavour: Kennedy LC-39B: United Space Alliance STS-49: NASA Low Earth Satellite reboost: 16 May: Successful Crewed orbital flight with seven astronauts; Maiden flight of Space Shuttle Endeavour; reboosted Intelsat 603: 14 May 00:40 Delta II 7925-8 Cape Canaveral LC-17B McDonnell Douglas Palapa-B4: Telkom: Geostationary ...
Jay Barbree (November 26, 1933 – May 14, 2021) was an American correspondent for NBC News, focusing on space travel.He was the only journalist to have covered every non-commercial human space mission in the United States, beginning with the first American in space, Alan Shepard aboard Freedom 7 in 1961, continuing through to the last mission of the Space Shuttle, Atlantis's STS-135 mission ...
Cape Canaveral LC-36B: General Dynamics: UHF-1: US Navy: Geosynchronous Communications: In orbit: Launch failure Booster engine failure left spacecraft in useless orbit 26 March 02:21 Zenit-2: Baikonur Site 45/1: VKS Kosmos 2237 MO RF Low Earth ELINT: In orbit: Operational 30 March 03:09 Delta II (7925) Cape Canaveral LC-17A McDonnell Douglas
The astronauts have separated from the station; now, with the Apollo main engine inoperative, they have insufficient fuel to return to the station. Pruett's friend, now named Ted Dougherty, plans a rescue mission using an experimental X-RV lifting body spacecraft, an early study for the Space Shuttle orbiter.
More modern mission control centers were split between launch control, which is located at the launch site such as Cape Canaveral, and mission control which is located at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center for the Apollo and Space Shuttle programs or at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for unmanned missions. [2]